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November 29, 2004

ISP Planet's Attempt to Size the Q3 2004 VoIP Subscriber Marketplace

ISP Planet has published their own 'market research' attempting to size the VoIP marketplace by the number of 'subscribers.'

This information would be more valuable if it was presented in two categories: by service providers who offer 'free' memberships (like Skype and Free World Dialup) and by the number of people who pay for their services. I would have liked to see the list broken down by region of the world and at least attempted to capture the names of the more popular regional service providers, even if the subscriber numbers were missing.

The ISP Planet list is missing quite a number of players, most noticeably, YahooBB! with their reported 4 million+ paid subscribers.

Given the information I have access to with respect to the international VoIP marketplace, the numbers reported currently understate the size and depth of the global VoIP marketplace.

Posted by jeff on November 29, 2004 01:08 AM | Permalink

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Comments

I might be wrong on this, but my understanding is that every Yahoo!BB subscriber is automatically a Yahoo!BB phone subscriber. But they are levied a per minute charge. So minutes of use may be a better indicator of user adoption, rather than straight user count would be for Vonage et al.

Posted by: Aswath at November 29, 2004 10:12 AM